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| 'Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.' | |
| 'I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun.' | |
| 'Nice to see you, to see you, nice!' | |
| 'War is peace.' | |
| 'If I bleat when I speak it's because I just got . . . fleeced.' | |
| 'There will be those who say 'Go slow. Don't upset the status quo.' No doubt we will hear this from competitors who perceive that they have an advantage today and want regulation t | |
| 'Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.' | |
| 'Curse the blasted, jelly-boned swines, the slimy, the belly-wriggling invertebrates, the miserable sodding rotters, the flaming sods, the snivelling, dribbling, dithering, palsied | |
| Hello darkness, my old friend, I've come to talk to you again. | |
| 'I'm a Pepper, he's a Pepper, she's a Pepper, we're a Pepper. Wouldn't you like to be a Pepper, too? Dr. Pepper.' | |
| 'He was a bag of bones, a floppy doll, a broken stick, a maniac.' | |
| 'Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.' | |
| 'It's like I was making a prison break, you know. And I'm heading for the wall, and I trip and I twist my ankle, and they throw the light on you, you know. So, somehow I get throug | |
| 'That would be a good thing for them to carve on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.' | |
| 'It takes a licking, but it keeps on ticking!' | |
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| 'Detroit is still hard at work on an SUV that runs on rain forest trees and panda blood.' | |
| '[O]ne can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a window pane.' | |
| Let me explain...(a mode of discourse) | |
| I loaned my friend $50 last November and he failed to pay me back. (Premise) I loaned him another $50 just before Christmas, which he hasn't paid back (Premise), and yet another $2 | |
| 'The sputtering economy could make the difference if you're trying to get a deal on a new set of wheels.' | |
| All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore, Socrates is mortal. | |
| 'We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.' | |
| 'While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.' | |
| 'He carried a strobe light and the responsibility for the lives of his men.' | |
| 'Farewell dear babe, my heart's too much content, | |
| 'Now we have a refuge to go to. A refuge that the Cylons know nothing about! It won't be an easy journey.' | |
| 'I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap.' | |
| Sherlock Holmes and Watson were on a camping trip. They had gone to bed and were lying there looking up at the sky. Holmes said, 'Watson, look up. What do you see?' | |
| 'Is United right for your move? Ask yourself: do you want (A) a seamless professional move? Or (B) your possessions set on fire? (A) technology experts to set up your home network? | |
| 'The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.' | |
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